William Brewster

Mayflower Passenger

5th great-grandfather

William the Conqueror

King of England

25th great-grandfather

Robert I, King of France

30th great-grandfather

Alfred the Great

King of the Anglo-Saxons

32nd great-grandfather

Charlemagne

King of the Franks

34th great-grandfather

Morgan Bulkeley

54th Governor of Connecticut

1st cousin 1 time removed via William Avery Morgan

Elihu Yale

Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College

1st cousin 5 times removed via Ann Lloyd

James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

2nd cousin 1 time removed via Nathan Smith

Nelson Rockefeller

41st U.S. Vice-President

2nd cousin 3 times removed via William Morgan Jr.

Oliver Wolcott

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

2nd cousin 4 times removed via Henry Wolcott

Admiral Robert Blake

Father of the Royal Navy

2nd cousin 7 times removed via Humphrey Blake

Sir Robert Laird Borden

8th Prime Minister of Canada

3rd cousin via Col. Robert Denison

Alfred Fuller

Founder of the Fuller Brush Co.

3rd cousin 1 time removed via Col. Robert Denison

Jacob Dolson Cox

28th Governor of Ohio

3rd cousin 1 time removed via Christopher Avery

Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley

Founder of Aetna Insurance

3rd cousin 1 time removed via George Denison

Melvyn Douglas

Movie Actor

3rd cousin 2 times removed via George Denison

Kenyon Cox

Painter and Illustrator

3rd cousin 2 times removed via Christopher Avery

John Adams

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

3rd cousin 3 times removed via Thomas Gardner Jr

Allyn Cox

Muralist

3rd cousin 3 times removed via Christopher Avery

Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

3rd cousin 4 times removed via Nathan Smith

Illeana Douglas

TV and Movie Actress

3rd cousin 4 times removed via George Denison

Glenn Close

Movie, Television, and Stage Actress

3rd cousin 5 times removed via George Denison

Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

3rd cousin 5 times removed via George Denison

Richard Gere

Movie Actor

3rd cousin 6 times removed via George Denison

William Sprague

27th Governor of Rhode Island

4th cousin via James Avery Jr.

Lewis Henry Morgan

Pioneering Anthropologist

4th cousin via John Morgan

General George B. McClellan

Union Army - U.S. Civil War

4th cousin 1 time removed via Samuel Starr

Schuyler Colfax

17th U.S. Vice-President

4th cousin 1 time removed via James Morgan Jr.

Admiral George Dewey

Admiral of the Navy

4th cousin 1 time removed via Hannah Denison

Deborah Samson

Female Revolutionary War Veteran

4th cousin 1 time removed via William Wetherell